Pont-au-Change, Paris
1854
Medium
Etching on ivory chine, laid down on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image, including stray marks: 14.4 × 32.9 cm (5 11/16 × 13 in.); Plate: 15.2 × 33.4 cm (6 × 13 3/16 in.); Primary support: 13.9 × 32.6 cm (5 1/2 × 12 7/8 in.); Secondary support: 29.9 × 45.2 cm (11 13/16 × 17 13/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
74024
About the Artist
Charles Meryon · 1821–1868
Charles Meryon, born on November 23, 1821, in Paris, was the illegitimate son of English physician Dr. Charles Lewis Meryon and dancer Pierre-Narcisse Chaspoux (stage name Narcisse Gentil) at the Paris Opéra. His half-sister Fanny, from his mother's prior relationship with Viscount Lowther, remained in contact after their mother's death in 1838. Raised partly outside Paris before attending Pension...